Blogs

AWS Monitoring Primer

Monitoring is critical for a secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient cloud infrastructure. This blog post ...

The Lambda monitoring blind spot

After a customer complained that a feature of marbot, our monitoring solution for AWS was ...

Amazon Web Services in Action 3rd Edition: Early Access

About seven years ago, Michael and I started to write a book about Amazon Web ...

AWS Cost Optimization 101

The beginning of the year is the perfect time to clean up and optimize. This ...

AWS CloudTrail: your audit log is incomplete

Recently, I was investigating the size of a security breach caused by leaked AWS credentials. ...

AWS CloudFormation Update Evaluation – YAML, Cross-Stack References, Simplified Substitution

In mid-September, AWS released a big update to CloudFormation.

AWS Client VPN: Connected with the Cloud

Everybody talks about remote work those days. A fundamental prerequisite is to provide secure connectivity ...

Prevent CloudFormation Change Sets from piling up

Recently, I’ve stumbled upon a problem when using aws cloudformation deploy within deployment pipelines (Jenkins, ...

AWS Backup – Vault cannot be deleted? Use this script!

With AWS Backup, it is simple to create snapshots of EBS, EFS, and more. A ...

AWS Architecture Pattern for Scheduled & Serverless Batch Processing

Scheduled batch jobs are the heart of many business processes implemented by enterprise applications. Reports ...